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Wednesday, October 26, 2016
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Kellogg Supply building catches fire
BY REGGIE PONDER AND
REBECCA BUNCH
Staff Writers
The Kellogg Supply Com
pany facility on West Queen
Street in Edenton was dam
aged by fire Sunday morn
ing.
The Edenton Fire Depart
ment was dispatched and
arrived on seen at 8:25 a.m.
Firefighters found the main
building, located at 409
W. Queen St., engulfed in
flames. The main building
includes 6,200 square feet of
retail space, according to the
company’s website. There
are also two acres of lumber
yards and two 7,000-square
foot warehouse buildings
that are part of the complex.
Edenton Fire Chief Craig
Forlines said the main build
ing was a total loss.
Firefighters from the Eden
ton Fire Department, Cen
ter Hill Crossroads Fire De
partment and Hertford Fire
Department were able to
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Firefighters from the
Edenton Fire Department
battle a blaze at the
Kellogg Supply Company
on West Queen Street
in Edenton Sunday
morning. The Edenton
Fire Department was
dispatched and arrived or
the scene at 8:25 a.m.
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North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory and other government officials unveil the sign marking the future Interstate 87 in Edenton, Monday.
The future interstate highway, which has not been added to the state’s transportation project schedule, will connect Raleigh with
Norfolk, Virginia.
McCrory celebrates Interstate 87 designation
Governor Pat McCrory speaks at the unveiling of the sign marking the
future Interstate 87 In Edenton, Monday, October 24,2016.
BY REGGIE PONDER
Editor
Gov. Pat McCrory said
during the unveiling of
a “future Interstate 87”
sign Monday that the planned
Interstate highway from Raleigh
to Norfolk, Va, will create jobs in
northeastern North Carolina by
connecting the region to Raleigh
and to the Hampton Roads area
of Virginia
McCroiy said when he first
started looking at the needs of
this region he saw right away that
better transportation connectors
were needed to the Raleigh and
Norfolk areas.
“One of our great weaknesses
in this area was that we didn’t
have the connectivity between
here and Raleigh and between
here and Hampton Roads,” Me
Crory said during art unveiling
ceremony for the new signs that
was held Monday afternoon at the
Edenton waterfront.
The governor said the Inter
state connector also will help
grow Edenton’s tourism economy.
“I don’t want Edenton to be
the best-kept secret in the United
States of America, let alone North
Carolina,” McCrory said. Call
ing the town a premier tourism
destination, the governor said 1-87
would help people get here more
quickly and easily, boosting every
thing from toiuism to industrial
development to real estate sales.
“I want to show off Edenton to
the rest of the state and the rest of
the nation because this is a great
place to show off,” McCrory said.
See INTERSTATE, 6A
Officials
eyeregs
for cigs,
alcohol
BY REGGIE PONDER
Editor
Chowan County officials
took the first step last week
toward adopting ordinances
that would ban alcoholic
beverages on county prop
erty with limited exceptions
and ban all tobacco prod
ucts in county buildings and
county-owned vehicles.
Both ordinances passed
6-1 at the Oct. 17 meeting of
the Chowan County Board
of Commissioners.
No one from the public
spoke during public hear
ings on the proposed ordi
nances that were held dur
ing the meeting.
The motion by Com
missioner Ellis Lawrence
to adopt the tobacco ordi
nance as presented passed
6-1 with Commissioner John
Mitchener voting against it.
Because the ordinance
did not pass unanimously
it requires a “second read
ing" in order to become
law, meaning it must come
before the board again at a
future meeting and be ap
proved by the board.
1 he second reading rale
does not require that tiie
second vote be unanimous.
A motion by Commis
sioner Keith Nixon to bring
the tobacco ordinance back
before the board at its next
meeting passed with Mitch
ener voting against it.
Likewise, Lawrence’s mo
tion to adopt the alcohol
ordinance passed &-1 with
Commissioner Emmett Win
borne voting against it. The
ordinance is expected to be
back on the agenda of the
commissioners’ next meet
ing.
Mitchener voted against
the proposed tobacco ordi
nance alter arguing that the
tobacco ban needed to cover
See ORDINANCES, 6A
Citizen calls for conditions on Timbermill project
BY REGGIE PONDER
Editor
A county resident urged
the Chowan County Board
of Commissioners last week
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to consider several specific
conditions when it meets
Nov. 4 to discuss the ap
plication for a conditional
use permit for the proposed
Timbermill Wind Project,
Bob Kirby, who also
spoke briefly during hear
ings held on the CUP ap
plication in late September,
addressed the board during
the public comment period
at the Oct. 17 meeting.
Charlottesville, Va-based
Apex Clean Energy Inc. has
proposed
building a
300-mega
watt wind
energy
facility in
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of them
planned
for sites in
Chowan.
Kirby
noted that
me near
Swamp and Center Hill ar
eas of Chowan and Perqui
mans counties.
Both counties require a
CUP for such facilities.
The proposed Timbermill
Wind Project would include
106 wind turbines, with 48
me i in
CXJP stands for “condition
al” and told the commission
ers it was their duty to place
conditions on the permit
that will benefit the citizens
of Chowan County.
Specifically, he asked
what remedy a county resi
dent would have if sound
levels generated by the tur
bines exceed the levels that
are in the permit and that
are projected by Apex. Kir
by said the county should
require Apex to provide
calibrated sound meters
to the sheriffs office and
should authorize the sheriff
to order a turbine turned off
if it exceeds the allowable
sound level.
In the same way, Kirby
said, there should be an en
forcement process in place
for shadow flicker and all
requirements of the ordi
nance.
In addition, the comity
needs to be sure it is fairly
compensated, Kirby said.
The way to do that is to use
the payment-in-lieu-of-taxes
- commonly known as PI
LOT - methodology to col
lect fair compensation, he
said, i
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